'It's going to be epic' - Stephen Curry and LeBron James face off - again - ESPN

SACRAMENTO — At some point, it will be someone else's time. One of the young teams that tries to dethrone the Golden State Warriors will break through. One of the defensive stoppers assigned to bottle up Stephen Curry will actually do it. An agitator will do more than poke the bear that is LeBron James.

But not yet.

Not after Curry scored 50 points to lead the Warriors to a 120-100 win against the No. 3-seeded Sacramento Kings in Game 7 of their wildly entertaining first-round series Sunday afternoon.

Not after James led the Los Angeles Lakers to a resounding 40-point win against the No. 2-seeded Memphis Grizzlies to wrap up their first-round series 4-2 on Friday night.

Not in the next two weeks, when the superstars who have defined the past two decades in the NBA meet for another clash beginning Tuesday (10 p.m. ET, TNT) in San Francisco in the Western Conference semifinals. It is the first playoff meeting between L.A. and Golden State in 32 years, though the Warriors have played James four times in the NBA Finals over the past eight seasons, while he was with the Cleveland Cavaliers.

«It's going to be epic,» Warriors forward Draymond Green said. «You got Steph, you got Bron doing it all over again.»

All season, James — who had the first 20-point, 20-rebound game of his playoff career in Game 4 against Memphis — has been asked how he maintains such a high level of play at age 38.

All season, the Warriors have been asked whether this will be their so-called «Last Dance» together as their collective ages and extraordinary payroll bears down on them.

«But… stop trying to turn the page on us so fast,» Green said. «Stop trying to turn the page on Bron.

»We get so caught up in what's the next thing, we don't appreciate the